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Jewish Studies Databases

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Databases by Title: A-Z

Many of the Jewish Studies databases are available as CD ROMs and may be accessed only from YULIS PCs within the Libraries, some on one or two PCs only. For location of the database you seek inquire at the desk.

Selected resources are available to YU Alumni through the  Alumni Portal

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GENERAL

HISTORY

JEWISH TRADITIONAL TEXTS

  • Bar Ilan Judaic Library (Version 14. Access on campus only.)
  • Bar Ilan Online Judaic Responsa   Searching Online Responsa
  • Bible Windows (Access in Library only. Inquire at Desk.)
  • HebrewBooks
  • Index of References to Talmudic Literature (Inquire at Desk)
  • Judaic Archives (Access in Library only. Request CD at Desk.)
  • Judaic Classics Library (Davka. Access on YULIS PCs in the Library only. Click START on lower left corner of desktop and select Davka)
  • Ma'agar ha-Tanakh (Mikra'ot Gedolot ha-Keter. Access in Library only. Inquire at Desk.)
  • Ma'agar Sifrut HaKodesh (Snunit) - Jewish texts: Tanakh, Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Yerushalmi, Talmud Bavli, Mishneh Torah leha-Rambam.
  • Mechon Mamre - Jewish texts: "Hebrew Bible (Tanach) in four editions in Hebrew (including one with cantillation marks), one in Aramaic (Targum Onqelos), one in English (JPS 1917), and one in parallel Hebrew and English," Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Yerushalmi, Talmud Bavli, Mishneh Torah and more.
  • Menasseh Ben Israel Collection - The digital collection consists of material belonging to the holdings of the Library of the Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Online Heritage - rare and out-of-print monographs from the National Library of Israel’s Digitized Book Repository.
  • Otsar Haposkim - Shas and Rishonim (Access in Library only. Request CD at Desk.)
  • Otsrot ha-shut - Otsar ha-Poskim (Access in Mendel Gottesman Library only. Request CD at Desk.)
  • Otzar HaHochma – Access on campus only.  If you are using a YULIS PC in the Library click START on lower left corner of desktop and select Otzar.  For YU faculty and staff - If you wish to access OTZAR from your office you must install the software.  See Instructions for Installing Otzar HaHochma.  (Note – The Otzar administration is expected to announce a web accessible version that does not require downloads.  Date not yet available.)
  • Rambish - Reshimat Ma’amarim shel Bene ha-Yeshivot – Index to articles in yeshiva publications, with full text where available.
  • Responsa of the Holocaust (Access on campus only.)
  • Seforim Online - Web site dedicated to making old rabbinic books available over the Internet.
  • Sifriyah Virtualit - (Halacha Brura and Birur Halacha Institute) Jewish texts from multiple Internet sites.
  • Soncino Talmud (Davka. Access on YULIS PCs in the Library only. Click START on lower left corner of desktop and select Davka)
  • Talmudic Encyclopedia (Included in Bar Ilan database, version 14. Access on campus only.)
  • Torah Treasures (DBS. Access in Library only. Inquire at Desk.)

LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

MANUSCRIPTS & MANUSCRIPT CATALOGS

  • Catalog of Manuscripts at the Jewish National and University Library and the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts. 
  • The David Simonsen Manuscripts - A digital collection of approximately 160 manuscripts in The Royal Library, Copenhagen.  The digitized items range from the only Genizah fragment in Danish collections -a Judeo-Arabic letter, tentatively dated to the 12th century - to modern copies of manuscripts in other libraries, and include “Gemma’s Prayerbook”, a decorated Hebrew prayer book written for the widow Gemma (Yemma) in Modena in 1531.
  • Digitized Manuscripts from the collection of the National Library of Israel and other collections– includes bible manuscripts, ketubbot, Talmudic literature, liturgy, writings of Maimonides, Rashi and others, and communal documents.
  • Friedberg Genizah Project- Online compendium of Genizah fragments from collections all over the world.  This website is accessed with an automatic login from designated computers in the Mendel Gottesman and Hedi Steinberg Libraries.  Inquire at the library desks.  Be sure to log out when your session is completed.  For additional access and for access from off campus to the Friedberg Genizah Project, click on Register in the New Member box and register for a personal username and password. Be sure to specify your affiliation and the reason for your request.
  • Mekhilta Textual Witnesses Database - includes all extant manuscripts: Ms Oxford, Ms Munich, Ms Vatican, Ms Cansantana, the Constantinople editio princeps, and transcriptions of all Geniza fragments and European binding fragments. The Database also includes a chart of comparison between the Constantinople editio princeps and the Venice edition of 1545.
  • Munich Talmud MS - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Babylonischer Talmud. Cod. hebr. 9
  • Penn/Cambridge Genizah Fragment Project
  • Talmudic Manuscripts (Saul Lieberman Institute. Request CD at Desk.)
  • Tosefta Textual Witnesses Database - Includes all extant manuscripts: Ms Vienna, Ms Erfurt, Ms London, the Venice editio princeps and transcriptions of all Geniza fragments and European binding fragments. The database also includes a catalogue of all the fragments divided by tractates; the fragments are joined to reconstruct original copies.

RELIGION & BIBLE

DATABASES by TITLE A-Z

Academic Guide to Jewish History
America: History and Life- - An index to journal articles covering the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.  (For a combined search of America: History and Life, and Historical Abstracts, click here.) 
American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
ArchiveGrid - Descriptions of historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.
ATLAS - Religion Index with selected full text.
Bar Ilan Judaic Library (Version 14. Access on campus only.) 
Bar Ilan Online Judaic Responsa   Searching Online Responsa
Bezeq - Israeli Telephone Directory
Bible Windows (Access in Library only. Inquire at Desk.)
BiBIL- Biblical Bibliography of Lausanne
Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive
Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, 1473-1960
Bibliography of Zionism
BILDI - Documentation for Biblical Literature Innsbruck
Catalog of Manuscripts at the Jewish National and University Library and the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts. (Includes thousands of manuscripts, with more being added as they are cataloged.)
Catalogue of the French Biblical and Archaeological School of Jerusalem (Request CD at Desk.)
CEEOL- Central and Eastern European Online Library. Articles from humanities and social sciences journals pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.
Compact Memory A collection of more than 100 German Jewish journals, most in searchable full text, published between 1806 and 1938.
Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
Daat (Herzog College, Yeshivat Har Etzion) Texts spanning the Jewish Studies disciplines.
Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Reference Library (Access on YULIS PCs in the Library only. Click START on lower left corner of desktop and select Scrolls.)
The David Simonsen Manuscripts - A digital collection of approximately 160 manuscripts in The Royal Library, Copenhagen.  The digitized items range from the only Genizah fragment in Danish collections -a Judeo-Arabic letter, tentatively dated to the 12th century - to modern copies of manuscripts in other libraries, and include “Gemma’s Prayerbook”, a decorated Hebrew prayer book written for the widow Gemma (Yemma) in Modena in 1531.
The Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land – (Although the site may recommend adjustments to screen resolution this is not permitted on Library PCs.)
Digitized Manuscripts from the collection of the National Library of Israel and other collections– includes bible manuscripts, ketubbot, Talmudic literature, liturgy, writings of Maimonides, Rashi and others, and communal documents.
Elenchus Bibliographicus (issue 2-3 of each volume of Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses) - Bibliography of books and articles in the field of Theology and Bible.
Encyclopaedia Judaica, 1st ed. (Access in Mendel Gottesman Library only. Request CD at Desk. Print versions retained at the libraries.)
Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed.
Encyclopaedia of Islam (Access in Mendel Gottesman Library only. Inquire at Desk.)
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception – EBR - An encyclopedia dedicated to the origins and reception of the Bible.  Thirty volumes are planned, the first two of which appeared in 2009. 
Ethnic News Watch
Felix Posen Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism 
Friedberg Genizah Project- Online compendium of Genizah fragments from collections all over the world.  This website is accessed with an automatic login from designated computers in the Mendel Gottesman and Hedi Steinberg Libraries.  Inquire at the library desks.  Be sure to log out when your session is completed.  For additional access and for access from off campus to the Friedberg Genizah Project, click on Register in the New Member box and register for a personal username and password. Be sure to specify your affiliation and the reason for your request.
HebrewBooks
Historic Cities - This site contains maps, literature, documents, books and other relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic cities and facilitates the location of similar content on the web.
Historical Abstracts - An index to journal articles covering the history of the world, excluding the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present.  (For a combined search of America: History and Life, and Historical Abstracts, click here.) 
Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language (Ma'agarim)
Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language –(Ma’agarim) CD ROM version, installed on two PCs in the Mendel Gottesman Library.  (Inquire at desk.)
Holocaust Encyclopedia (US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Holy Land Maps - from the Eran Laor Collection at the National Library of Israel
Index of References to Talmudic Literature (Inquire at Desk)
Index Theologicus - The theological database contains document descriptions of articles from more than 600 periodicals in theology and religious studies, and essays from Festschriften and congress publications. The database focuses mainly on articles written in Western European languages.
Index to Hebrew Periodicals (IHP)
Index to Jewish Periodicals
Index to Yiddish Periodicals (IYP) - Indexes materials published in the Yiddish press in Eastern Europe, from its beginnings (1862) until 1939 (in the Soviet Union: until 1948). Includes all signed materials, whether real name or pseudonym, but not unsigned news or articles, except when these deal with Yiddish literature and culture. 
International Medieval Bibliography 
Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
An Invitation to Piyut - Piyut archive
Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics
Israeli Libraries
ITER  (Interdisciplinary journal literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.)
JEDU Treasures – Sources and research on the history of Jewish Education from the Middle Ages until the early twentieth century.
Jewish American History
Jewish Encyclopedia (originally published 1901-1906)
Jewish Heritage Society 
Jewish History.com - COJS: Center for Online Judaic Studies
JOFA Online Library – Selected articles on women and halakhah, representing varying perspectives.
Judaic Archives (Access in Library only. Request CD at Desk.)
Judaic Classics Library (Davka. Access on YULIS PCs in the Library only. Click START on lower left corner of desktop and select Davka)
Judaica Libraries and Archives
Judaica Sound Archives - digitized audio recordings. A project of the Wimberly Library at Florida Atlantic University.
Ladino Digital Library - Stanford University.
Leksikon biyo-bibliyografi shel ha-sifrut ha'Ivrit ha-hadashah...- Hebrew Literature Lexicon from the 1960s to the present.
Ma'agar ha-Tanakh (Mikra'ot Gedolot ha-Keter. Access in Library only. Inquire at Desk.)
Ma'agar Sifrut HaKodesh (Snunit) - Jewish texts: Tanakh, Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Yerushalmi, Talmud Bavli, Mishneh Torah leha-Rambam.
Ma'agarim Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language
Ma’agarim Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language -CD ROM version, installed on two PCs in the Mendel Gottesman Library.  (Inquire at desk.) 
Mechon Mamre - Jewish texts: "Hebrew Bible (Tanach) in four editions in Hebrew (including one with cantillation marks), one in Aramaic (Targum Onqelos), one in English (JPS 1917), and one in parallel Hebrew and English," Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Yerushalmi, Talmud Bavli, Mishneh Torah and more.
Medical Ethics and Halacha - A database of articles and texts under the auspices of the Dr. Falk Schlesinger Institute for Medical-Halachic Research at Shaare Zedek Medical Center.  To search for articles by broad subject category, click on the Articles link.  To enter the Database, click on Take me in under JME Databases.
Mekhilta Textual Witnesses Database - includes all extant manuscripts: Ms Oxford, Ms Munich, Ms Vatican, Ms Cansantana, the Constantinople editio princeps, and transcriptions of all Geniza fragments and European binding fragments. The Database also includes a chart of comparison between the Constantinople editio princeps and the Venice edition of 1545.
Menasseh Ben Israel Collection - The digital collection consists of material belonging to the holdings of the Library of the Universiteit van Amsterdam
Milon Morfix - Translations from English to Hebrew and from Hebrew to English.  Type English or Hebrew in the search box. 
Munich Talmud MS - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Babylonischer Talmud. Cod. hebr. 9
National Sound Archive (NSA) Catalog – Catalog of the National Library of Israel's Sound Archive
Old Testament Abstracts
Online Critical Pseudepigrapha
Online Heritage - rare and out-of-print monographs from the national Library of Israel's Digitized Book Repository.
Orion Dead Sea Scrolls Bibliography
Otsar Haposkim - Shas and Rishonim (Access in Library only. Request CD at Desk.)
Otsrot ha-shut - Otsar ha-Poskim (Access in Mendel Gottesman Library only. Request CD at Desk.)
Otzar HaHochma – Access on campus only.  If you are using a YULIS PC in the Library click START on lower left corner of desktop and select Otzar.  For YU faculty and staff - If you wish to access OTZAR from your office you must install the software.  See Instructions for Installing Otzar HaHochma.  (Note – The Otzar administration is expected to announce a web accessible version that does not require downloads.  Date not yet available.)
Penn/Cambridge Genizah Fragment Project
Philosopher's Index
Project Ben-Yehuda - Classics of Hebrew literature, poetry, prose, etc.
Rachel - The Online Catalog of the European Network of Judaica and Hebraica Libraries.
Rambi - Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
Rambish - Reshimat Ma’amarim shel Bene ha-Yeshivot – Index to articles in yeshiva publications, with full text where available.
Rav Milim Dictionary – May be searched in Hebrew or English and includes over 60,000 entries with translations, synonyms, idioms and phrases, and rhyming words, updated regularly in accordance with the decisions of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.
Religious and Theological Abstracts (RTA)
Responsa of the Holocaust (Access on campus only.)
Seforim Online - Web site dedicated to making old rabbinic books available over the Internet.
Sifriyah Virtualit - (Halacha Brura and Birur Halacha Institute) Jewish texts from multiple Internet sites.
Soncino Talmud (Davka. Access on YULIS PCs in the Library only. Click START on lower left corner of desktop and select Davka)
Talmudic Encyclopedia (Included in Bar Ilan database, version 14. Access on campus only.)
Talmudic Manuscripts (Saul Lieberman Institute. Request CD at Desk.)
Torah Treasures (DBS. Access in Library only. Inquire at Desk.)
Tosefta Textual Witnesses Database - Includes all extant manuscripts: Ms Vienna, Ms Erfurt, Ms London, the Venice editio princeps and transcriptions of all Geniza fragments and European binding fragments. The database also includes a catalogue of all the fragments divided by tractates; the fragments are joined to reconstruct original copies.
Yiddish Books Online - Yiddish Books Online - Online access to the full texts of nearly 11,000 out-of-print Yiddish titles from The National Yiddish Book Center.
Yiddish Prints -Contains about 800 valuable Yiddish books that belong to the Frankfurt University Library.
Yizkor (Holocaust Memorial) Books - A New York Public Library project.

 

 
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